Website Has Engineer’s Robot Venus Flytrap

The website PhysOrg posted a UMaine news release about a robot version of a Venus Flytrap constructed by UMaine’s Mohsen Shahinpoor, a mechanical engineering professor. Shahinpoor made the robot out of a nanomaterial he invented several years ago that can be used to mimic muscle function.

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